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Black Parade
IC: All day May 26
OOC: December 16

May 26 marks the last day of the Hanazono Shrine Festival in Shinjuku. The day-long parade took pace on the 25th, to much acclaim, and now everyone is wrapping up the festival by visiting food stalls and the shrine itself. It seems like an excellent ending to a wonderful festival and even residents of the Far Shore might find themselves enjoying it without any prompting from the Heavens at all.

That's when things go from good to bad. At around noon, traffic will suddenly find itself stopped for what looks like another parade, which is strange because the parade was yesterday. However, the Near Shore residents don't seem too angered by it and instead settle in to watch the parade. It seems like a perfectly normal parade at first, made up of the same floats that were displayed the previous day, but any close observers will quickly note that something is wrong with it.

And then it goes from bad to worse. This is no ordinary parade - it's a parade of the dead. Dead souls have taken over lifeless bodies on a steady march down the street. And when they reach the final point of the route, all chaos breaks loose, prompting the Heavens to step in to intervene and send out all the gods and shinki they have to stop the sudden unexplained slaughter.

To participate in the event, you will just need to comment to the event/intro log after it goes up on December 16 at 7PM EST.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this post.

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So if we have a god who is a god of death/dying/the afterlife, do they get any extra umph for this event? Like are they more effective, can they handle the situation without needing to rend them (if they need rending), etc?

A god of death might have an easier time driving the souls from the dead bodies. Rending is not necessary for the souls, as they are not technically ayakashi. If someone has a specific ability that deals with death, they will have an upper hand in this event!

SWEET

Quick question: can the souls possessing the bodies still be under the effect of magical hypnosis (i.e: singing so the people are "ordered" to fall asleep, or order the souls to release their hostages), or are they immune to it?

They certainly can still be affected by magical hypnosis.

How long will they stick around if someone tries to round them up and keep them? Idk how successful I'll even have Dio be, but he's gotta try.

Dio no don't try to make pets out of them. That is not how zombies work

He's just

showing some undead solidarity

The bodies will stick around. The souls will be gone by the end of the event. So Dio would have collected a nice array of corpses.

Score. Time to collect some sweet dead bodies

Goddammit Dio.

Question for you guys. Are Blessed/Holy weapons (more) effective at defeating them? Nephenee's Wishblade has a blessing on it (ironically said blessing also lets her harm spirits...Neph don't kill the ghosties).

Sure! That would definitely be more effective.

I'm sorry but I have to ask.... will getting them in the head be an effective method of dealing with them?

Nope! They are possessed dead bodies, not technically zombies.

Are the lifeless bodies obviously lifeless (like, rotting)? And will it be obvious to Far Shore residents that the souls in those bodies are 'dead' as well?

Relatedly, what constitutes a 'dead' soul? Is it an ayakashi? A human soul that's been corrupted somehow?

The bodies are, in fact, rotting, though that might not be evident from a distance. So, essentially, recently deceased bodies. The souls are obviously not meant to be attached to these bodies, so yes it will be obvious that they're dead.

A dead soul is a soul that has been detached from its original living body. These are just human souls, attached to dead bodies, that are very confused and violent as a result.

Hi mods. Got a couple of questions on the event, so please bear with me.

1. How can the gods/shinki stop the bodies? Do they have to destroy the corpses? Or is it simply a matter of exorcising the soul from the body?
2. What happens to the soul once it is exorcised/once the body it inhabits is destroyed? Will the soul attempt to find a new corpse to possess?
3. If the gods/shinki have to force the soul outside the corpse, how can this be done? Is it necessarily through destroying the body, or is there some prayer/spell that can be used instead?
4. With regards to the above question, can a borderline be used to "cut" whatever the soul is using to stick inside the bodies?

Thanks mods.

1. The soul will either have to be exorcised or the body completely destroyed. Otherwise, they will keep rampaging.
2. The soul will simply float away.
3. Any character that has natural exorcism-like abilities will be able to use that. Otherwise, destruction of the corpse is necessary.
4. A borderline can be used to literally cut the body, but not the ethereal ties between the soul and body.

Alright, thanks mods for the prompt response!

Tagging onto this question-- are the souls that leave the bodies human, or are they generic spirits (or something else)?

They're human.

So, given that there's precedence for things taking over lifeless bodies, including Trance's avatar body (not that she'd ever know/remember,)

is it possible for the same thing to happen here?

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking about here...! I'm sorry, are you asking to see if Trance can herself take over a lifeless body?

Oh, no no. More the reverse.

The part of Trance that walks and interacts on the Far and Near shore is a lifeless puppet/construct that she essentially created and took over. The episode I linked showed that a creature that infects and takes over lifeless bodies was also able to take control of Trance's body almost right away.

Oh! Got it!

These would not be able to take over her body, as that would involve forcing out her 'soul', and they can't do that.

awww hell yes time for slaughter and SNACKS

Question! Since the even is now posted, can a dead soul be someone who died in a previous game with a CRAU character that died while the character was in the game with them?

You betcha! That's totally acceptable.

When it comes to the "Souls, Souls and more Souls" prompt, does it count of the characters died in an alternate timeline? PMMM's a little odd when it comes to who's dead and who's not.

That's totally fine as well! If your character is aware of the timelines (as Homura would be with memories), they would also recognize that the soul was from a specific timeline.

Here's a question: will the bodies be easy to set on fire by someone who is really wants to burn them?

This only needs a short answer! YES! Have fun~

Awesome! Second question though: will the souls have any kind of desire that a person who senses greed would pick up on?

There might be hints of greed in some of the souls, but mostly overridden by the desire to escape the pain.

Another question: Can mind-affecting powers be used on the souls while they're inhabiting the bodies? Hijikata's got "make someone want to do things more or less than they do (without changing what they want, exactly)" as his god power -- would that have an effect on them at all, or would it fail to react like it would if he used it on something that doesn't have any sort of will?

His powers would definitely have an effect on these souls.

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